Beautiful Country, Qian Julie Wang, Doubleday – In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.”
Anna Roins
Anna Roins is a Senior Lawyer, previously of the Australian Government Solicitor, as well as a freelance journalist.
She has studied creative literature at The University of Oxford (Continuing Education) and the Faber Academy, London. Anna is a regular contributor to AUTHORLINK assigned to conduct interviews with best-selling authors. She also tries to write novels in her spare time, reviews books and writes community pieces for reputable online and print publications.
Interview: Everyone Has A Story, Says Julie Ma
Happy Families, Julie Ma, Welbeck – Feed into the rich tapestry of British Chinese history! A charming and uplifting story revolving around three generations of a Chinese family in a Welsh city and the resentments, secrets, and grudges that have come to define them.
Interview: House of Glass Exposes Secrets of 20th-Century Jewish Family
House of Glass, Hadley Freeman, Simon & Schuster – Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother, Sara lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it.
Interview: Can Star-Crossed Sisters Ever Find Love?
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany, Lori Nelson Spielman, Berkley – A trio of second-born daughters sets out on a whirlwind journey through the lush Italian countryside to break the family curse that says they’ll never find love, by New York Times bestseller Lori Nelson Spielman, author of The Life List.
Interview: War Librarian Smuggles Books Away From Nazis
The Paris Library, Janet Skeslein Chares, Atria Books -Award-winning author of Moonlight in Odessa (Bloomsbury USA, 1 September 2009), Janet Skeslien Charles’s latest novel is set in World World II and tells the true tale of the courageous librarians who defied the Nazis in order to hand-deliver books to Jewish readers.
Interview: Widowish, Healing Through Writing About Grief
Widowish, Melissa Gould, Little Brown – When her beloved husband died unexpectedly of Multiple Sclerosis and West Nile Virus, writer Melissa Gould started chronicling her grief journey through her personal essays and speaking engagements.
Interview: Polly Samson on A Theatre for Dreamers
A Theatre for Dreamers, Polly Samson, Algonquin Books – A Theatre for Dreamers is Polly Samson’s bestselling novel and a 2020 ‘Book of the Year’ in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and The Spectator.
Interview: Fear of Disappearing Fuels The Invisible Life
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, V. E. Schwab, Tor Book – France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever – and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.
Jess Walter on The Cold Millions, and How He Shapes a Story
The Cold Millions, Jess Walter, Harper – Reviewers call him “a genius of the modern American moment” and his books “masterpieces.”
Interview: Pierre Writes of Big Tech Taking Over Our Lives
Meanwhile in Dopamine City, DBC Pierre, Faber Books – Winner of the Man Booker, the Whitbread First Novel and recently shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize for his latest release, MEANWHILE IN DOPAMINE CITY, a satirical dystopia about a widower struggling to raise two children in an age of digital big tech,
